On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Barrett, Brian <bbarr...@amazon.com> wrote: > > However, I do like Gilles' suggestion to make autogen.pl be a little smarter. > If I recall correctly (and it's been a couple years now), I think that's > what GASNet does with their bootstrap script. Seems like everyone gets what > they want :). >> >>> - an alternative to removing autogen.pl (from the tarball) is to have >>> autogen.pl >>> test repo_rev and/or tarball_version from VERSION so we can detect if >>> autogen.pl is ran >>> from a tarball. in that case, we could fail with a message such as >>> "you might not want to do that, but if you really do, re-run autogen.pl >>> with the --force parameter" >> >> That's a good idea.
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